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Nobel Prize Winners

The 100 most recent Nobel Prize laureates with year, category, and motivation.

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Updated:2/14/2026
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Frederick J. Ramsdell
2,025Physiology or Medicinefor their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance
Joel Mokyr
2,025Economic Sciencesfor having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress
John Clarke
2,025Physicsfor the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit
John M. Martinis
2,025Physicsfor the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit
László Krasznahorkai
2,025Literaturefor his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art
Maria Corina Machado
2,025Peacefor her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy
Mary E. Brunkow
2,025Physiology or Medicinefor their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance
Michel H. Devoret
2,025Physicsfor the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit
Omar M. Yaghi
2,025Chemistryfor the development of metal–organic frameworks
Peter Howitt
2,025Economic Sciencesfor the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction
Philippe Aghion
2,025Economic Sciencesfor the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction
Richard Robson
2,025Chemistryfor the development of metal–organic frameworks
Shimon Sakaguchi
2,025Physiology or Medicinefor their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance
Susumu Kitagawa
2,025Chemistryfor the development of metal–organic frameworks
Daron Acemoglu
2,024Economic Sciencesfor studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity
David Baker
2,024Chemistryfor computational protein design
Demis Hassabis
2,024Chemistryfor protein structure prediction
Gary Ruvkun
2,024Physiology or Medicinefor the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation
Geoffrey Hinton
2,024Physicsfor foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks
Han Kang
2,024Literaturefor her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life
James A. Robinson
2,024Economic Sciencesfor studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity
John J. Hopfield
2,024Physicsfor foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks
John Jumper
2,024Chemistryfor protein structure prediction
Nihon Hidankyo
2,024Peacefor its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again
Simon Henry Roberts Johnson
2,024Economic Sciencesfor studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity
Victor Ambros
2,024Physiology or Medicinefor the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation
Aleksey Yekimov
2,023Chemistryfor the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots
Anne L’Huillier
2,023Physicsfor experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter
Claudia Goldin
2,023Economic Sciencesfor having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes
Drew Weissman
2,023Physiology or Medicinefor their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
Ferenc Krausz
2,023Physicsfor experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter
Jon Fosse
2,023Literaturefor his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable
Katalin Karikó
2,023Physiology or Medicinefor their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
Louis E. Brus
2,023Chemistryfor the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots
Moungi G. Bawendi
2,023Chemistryfor the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots
Narges Mohammadi
2,023Peacefor her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all
Pierre Agostini
2,023Physicsfor experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter
Alain Aspect
2,022Physicsfor experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science
Ales Bialiatski
2,022PeaceThe Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have m...
Annie Ernaux
2,022Literaturefor the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory
Anton Zeilinger
2,022Physicsfor experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science
Ben S. Bernanke
2,022Economic Sciencesfor research on banks and financial crises
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
2,022Chemistryfor the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry
Center for Civil Liberties
2,022PeaceThe Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have m...
Douglas W. Diamond
2,022Economic Sciencesfor research on banks and financial crises
John F. Clauser
2,022Physicsfor experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science
K. Barry Sharpless
2,022Chemistryfor the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry
Memorial
2,022PeaceThe Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have m...
Morten Meldal
2,022Chemistryfor the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry
Philip H. Dybvig
2,022Economic Sciencesfor research on banks and financial crises
Svante Pääbo
2,022Physiology or Medicinefor his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution
Abdulrazak Gurnah
2,021Literaturefor his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents
Ardem Patapoutian
2,021Physiology or Medicinefor their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch
Benjamin List
2,021Chemistryfor the development of asymmetric organocatalysis
David Card
2,021Economic Sciencesfor his empirical contributions to labour economics
David Julius
2,021Physiology or Medicinefor their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch
David W.C. MacMillan
2,021Chemistryfor the development of asymmetric organocatalysis
Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov
2,021Peacefor their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace
Giorgio Parisi
2,021Physicsfor the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales
Guido W. Imbens
2,021Economic Sciencesfor their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships
Joshua D. Angrist
2,021Economic Sciencesfor their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships
Klaus Hasselmann
2,021Physicsfor the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming
Maria Ressa
2,021Peacefor their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace
Syukuro Manabe
2,021Physicsfor the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming
Andrea Ghez
2,020Physicsfor the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy
Charles M. Rice
2,020Physiology or Medicinefor the discovery of Hepatitis C virus
Emmanuelle Charpentier
2,020Chemistryfor the development of a method for genome editing
Harvey J. Alter
2,020Physiology or Medicinefor the discovery of Hepatitis C virus
Jennifer A. Doudna
2,020Chemistryfor the development of a method for genome editing
Louise Glück
2,020Literaturefor her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal
Michael Houghton
2,020Physiology or Medicinefor the discovery of Hepatitis C virus
Paul R. Milgrom
2,020Economic Sciencesfor improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats
Reinhard Genzel
2,020Physicsfor the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy
Robert B. Wilson
2,020Economic Sciencesfor improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats
Roger Penrose
2,020Physicsfor the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity
World Food Programme
2,020Peacefor its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a we...
Abhijit Banerjee
2,019Economic Sciencesfor their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty
Abiy Ahmed Ali
2,019Peacefor his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea
Akira Yoshino
2,019Chemistryfor the development of lithium-ion batteries
Didier Queloz
2,019Physicsfor the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star
Esther Duflo
2,019Economic Sciencesfor their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty
Gregg L. Semenza
2,019Physiology or Medicinefor their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability
James Peebles
2,019Physicsfor theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology
John B. Goodenough
2,019Chemistryfor the development of lithium-ion batteries
M. Stanley Whittingham
2,019Chemistryfor the development of lithium-ion batteries
Michael Kremer
2,019Economic Sciencesfor their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty
Michel Mayor
2,019Physicsfor the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star
Peter Handke
2,019Literaturefor an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience
Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe
2,019Physiology or Medicinefor their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability
William G. Kaelin Jr
2,019Physiology or Medicinefor their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability
Arthur Ashkin
2,018Physicsfor the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems
Denis Mukwege
2,018Peacefor their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict
Donna Strickland
2,018Physicsfor their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses
Frances H. Arnold
2,018Chemistryfor the directed evolution of enzymes
George P. Smith
2,018Chemistryfor the phage display of peptides and antibodies
Gérard Mourou
2,018Physicsfor their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses
James P. Allison
2,018Physiology or Medicinefor their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation
Nadia Murad Basee Taha
2,018Peacefor their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict
Olga Tokarczuk
2,018Literaturefor a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life
Paul M. Romer
2,018Economic Sciencesfor integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis
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